As you age, your lips will lose volume, due to fat loss -- and then your silicone lips may look different. - Walnut Creek, CA

Silicone migrates, no matter what technique you use, no matter how long you "rest" between injections. I got my silicone injections at a rate of $100-$300 or so per injection, over a long period of time until my lips were where I wanted them. Don't remember how much the total was over time. Now, though, I'll have to spend some $$ to have a great surgeon remove the silicone. And it's NOT easy to find a doctor who will do this!! Stick with the temporary, disolveable materials.

Without a doubt, I loved my new plump, permanent lips. And without any doubt, my idealism and age blinded me to possible future complications. It wouldn't happen to ME. Permanent fillers in the lips are going to be a bad time later in life. When you are young, you have NO idea what changes are on the way to your face as you age. Sure, you've seen your mom, your aunts, your gramma age, so you think you might know something. Well, this is one of those things where you might find out the hard way. I would NOT use permanent fillers in the lips again. I can see using an implant, or just using temporary fillers for this area but the problem with the permanent fillers is that they are unpredictable, and create scar tissue over and over again whilst in your lips. You can't really control when or where that scar tissue will develop. Also, your face will change significantly as you age, in ways you can't predict when you're 28. I am hoping that this whole Instagram-faced world will calm the hell down with plastic surgery in general, after seeing enough horribly ransacked faces, and that people will just start recognizing their own unique beauty, and they'll enhance their features rather than completely overhauling them.

I'm excited, I just got my first steroid injection in my lower lip to treat the migration beyond the lip line of my lower lip. The goal is to SOFTEN the scar tissue, and shrink it, however, I'm told that it won't solve the problem *completely*. I'm OK with that because I think shrinking it down will be enough, I'm not really looking to have anything surgically removed unless it becomes a bigger issue. So I should notice *some* shrinkage of the swollen areas below the lip line of the lower lip in 2 weeks, and then I'll get more injections if needed. Cost: about $150 per kenalog treatment. Pretty reasonable. We'll see how this goes, fingers crossed!